San Francisco Chronicle

This week at Golden Gate Fields

- — Larry Stumes, Special to The Chronicle

Schedule: Post Feature Santa Stakes Memorial time: Anita at simulcast Keeneland; at Thursday-Sunday 12:15 Derby; Aqueduct p.m. Grade races: Grade — all 1, Grade $1 2, Saturday million $750,000 1, $1 Blue million Wood Grass Update: race. … late No There Pick racing 5, is which is a carryover scheduled begins of for with $40,132 the the following third in Thursday’s two is taking Thursdays those days (April off 12, after 19) as running Santa extra Anita races also this week. … Sir Vronski collected the richest claiming victory of his remarkable career in Sunday’s first race. The 7-year-old gelding ran for a $30,000 price in the 5½-furlong event and rallied to win by a half-length. Sir Vronski has won 13 of 20 sprints and six of 12 routes and is 9for-13 on synthetic, 6-for-11 on dirt and 4-for-8 on grass. He has won 13 of his 19 starts for owner Allen Aldrich and trainer Quinn Howey with $145,932 in earnings out of his total of $241,978. Elsewhere: Justify, regarded as one of the top contenders for the Kentucky Derby despite only a maiden and allowance win, faces Bolt d’Oro in the Santa Anita Derby. No horse has won the Kentucky Derby without racing as a 2-year-old since Apollo in 1882, and Justify’s debut came Feb. 13. His victories and workouts have been effortless, but Grade 1-winner Bolt d’Oro will be a stern test. The field of six also includes Jerry Hollendorf­er-trained Instilled Regard. … Kanthaka, a distant third behind Bolt d’Oro and sinceinjur­ed McKinzie in the San Felipe Stakes, runs in the Blue Grass Stakes for Hollendorf­er. The field of 14 is headed by Breeders’ Cup Juvenile winner Good Magic and Quip and Flameaway, the 1-2 finishers from the Tampa Bay Derby. … Gotham Stakes winner Enticed will be favored in the Wood Memorial. … Miss Sunset seeks her first Grade 1 victory when she runs in the $300,000 Madison Stakes on the Blue Grass Stakes undercard. Trained by Jeff Bonde for Bay Area owners Alan Klein and Phil Lebherz, Miss Sunset has won nine of 15 starts and has earned $738,735. … Paved, who became the first filly to win the El Camino Real Derby, meets fellow 3-year-old fillies in the Grade 3, $150,000 Providenci­a Stakes on the Santa Anita Derby undercard. … Pool 4 of the Kentucky Derby Future Wager runs Friday-Sunday. … My Kentucky Derby top 10: Audible, Mendelssoh­n, Bolt d’Oro, Justify, Magnum Moon, Solomini, Good Magic, Enticed, Quip, Instilled Regard.

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